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Major star and producer, and member of one of Hollywood's most prominent families to boot, Michael Douglas was born to movie icon Kirk Douglas and British actress Diana Dill on September 25, 1944, in New Brunswick, NJ. From the age of eight he was raised in Connecticut by his mother and a stepfather, but spent time with his father during vacations from military school. It was while on location with his father that the young Douglas began learning about filmmaking. In 1962, he worked as an assistant director on Lonely Are the Brave, and was so taken with the cinema that he passed up the opportunity to study at Yale for that of studying drama at the University of California at Santa Barbara. At one point he and actor/director/producer Danny De Vito roomed together, and have remained friends ever since. Douglas also studied drama in New York for a while, and made his film debut as an actor playing a pacifist hippie draft evader who decides to fight in Vietnam in Hail Hero! (1969). He appeared in several more dramas, notably Summertree (1971), in which he played a dying Vietnam vet. In 1972, he was cast as volatile rookie police inspector Steve Keller opposite Karl Malden's more experienced Inspector Mike Stone. Douglas appeared in the series and occasionally directed episodes of it through 1976. In 1975, Douglas became one of the hottest producers in Tinseltown when he produced Milos Forman's tour de force adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which starred Jack Nicholson in one of his best roles. Originally, Douglas' father Kirk owned the film rights to the story. Having appeared in the Broadway version, the elder Douglas had wanted to star in a film adaptation for years, but had no luck getting it produced. The younger Douglas persuaded his father to sell him the rights and give up the notion of starring in the film. The result: a box-office smash that earned five Oscars, including Best Picture. After this triumph, Douglas resumed acting and began developing his screen persona. His was a decidedly paradoxical persona: though ruggedly handsome with an honest, emotive face reminiscent of his father's, onscreen Douglas retained an oily quality that was unusual in someone possessing such physical characteristics. He became known for characters that were sensitive yet arrogant and had something of a bad-boy quality, a kind of rebellious strength. Through the '70s, Douglas appeared in three more features, notably The China Syndrome, which he also produced. The film, which was the story of an iron-willed female reporter's attempts to expose the dangerous conditions of a nuclear reactor, cast Douglas as a cameraman. While it was a taut and earnest drama, much of its publicity came from the real-life Three Mile Island drama that eerily occurred the week of the movie's release. In 1984, Douglas teamed with Kathleen Turner to appear in Romancing the Stone, an offbeat romantic adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones. Co-starring old friend Danny De Vito, it was a major box-office hit and revitalized Douglas' acting career, which had started to flag. Turner, Douglas and De Vito re-teamed the following year for an equally entertaining sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. It was in 1987 that Douglas played one of his landmark roles, that of a reprehensible yuppie who pays a terrible price for a moment's weakness with the mentally unbalanced Glenn Close in the runaway hit Fatal Attraction. The performance marked Douglas' entrance into edgier roles, and that same year he played an amoral corporate raider in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, for which he earned his first Oscar as an actor. In 1989, Douglas reunited with Kathleen Turner to appear in Danny De Vito's War of the Roses, one of the darkest ever celluloid glances at marital breakdown. By the end of the decade, Douglas had become one of Hollywood's most in-demand and highly paid stars. Douglas found success exploring the darker realms of his persona in Black Rain (1989) and the notorious Basic Instinct (1992). One of his darkest and most repugnantly intriguing roles came in 1993's Falling Down, in which he played an average Joe driven to cope with his powerlessness through acts of horrible violence. In 1995, Douglas lightened up to play a lonely, widowed president in The American President, and returned to adventure with 1996's box-office bomb The Ghost and the Darkness. In 1997 he appeared in the thriller The Game, and followed that with another behind-the-scenes role, this time as executive producer for the John Travolta/Nicholas Cage thriller Face/Off. Returning to acting in 1998, Douglas starred with Gwyneth Paltrow in A Perfect Murder, a remake of Hitchcock's classic Dial M for Murder. 2000 found Douglas receiving some of the best publicity of his career, first with an unconventional turn in director Curtis Hanson's little-seen follow-up to L.A. Confidential, the highly acclaimed Wonder Boys. The Pittsburgh-set human comedy cast the actor in one of his most memorable roles as Grady Tripp, a college professor/erstwhile author slouching toward middle age and having to make some serious decisions about his married girlfriend, his marijuana habit, and his long-gestating second novel. Douglas' name did begin to pop up in year-end critics awards. More awards buzz would arrive just before the end of the year with Douglas' part in Traffic, director Steven Soderbergh's ambitious drug-war epic. Stepping into a role originally developed for Harrison Ford, Douglas returned to his more stoic persona as Ohio Supreme Court Judge and newly appointed U.S. Drug Czar, who finds himself in an less-than-enviable position when he realizes his daughter is a freebase addict. Though his part -- and for that matter, every part in the film -- was considered a supporting one, Douglas won further acclaim as the film climbed well past the 100-million-dollar mark at the box office. Talk of dual Oscar nominations for the actor was rife, but when the lists were announced in February 2001, Douglas found himself crowded out of an extremely competitive year. Douglas had other life successes to console him in 2000, however, when he married longtime girlfriend Catherine Zeta-Jones and welcomed their new son Dylan into the world -- though not necessarily in that order. Also formed that year was Douglas' new production company, Further Films; it saw its first wide release in 2001 with the ensemble comedy One Night at McCool's. In 2003 he made It Runs in the Family, a comedy concerning three generations of a dysfunctional family attempting to reconcile their longtime differences. Fiction reflected reality in the film due to the involvement of father Kirk and son Cameron portraying, conveniently enough, Michael's father and son respectively. The family affair would continue when Douglas took on the role of a fearless CIA operative prepairing for his son's upcoming wedding in the 2003 remake The In-Laws, yet neither that film nor the subsequent 2006 action thriller The Sentinel -- in which Douglas starred as a disgraced special agent looking to foil a presidential assassination plot -- would ultimately prove to be the box office hit that propelled Douglas back to superstardom. In 2006 the Hollywood legend would go back to making audiences laugh as the unsuspecting father of a newly married woman driven to the edge of insanity by the lingering presence of her husband's charmingly obnoxious best friend in You, Me and Dupree. In 2009 he earned strong reviews for his work in the little-seen Solitary Man, then the next year returned to the role of Gordon Gekko for a Wall Street sequel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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| Born | Michael Kirk Douglas September 25, 1944 New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Actor, producer |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Spouse | Diandra Luker (1977–2000) Catherine Zeta-Jones (2000–present) |
| Children | Cameron Douglas (with Diandra Luker) Dylan Michael Douglas (with Catherine Zeta-Jones) Carys Zeta Douglas (with Catherine Zeta-Jones) |
| Parents | Kirk Douglas, Diana Dill |
| Relatives | Joel Douglas (brother) Peter Douglas (half-brother) Eric Douglas (half-brother, deceased) Anne Buydens (stepmother) |
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009.[1] He is the eldest of actor Kirk Douglas's four sons.
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Early life and education
Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian-born actress Diana Dill. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Gomel in Belarus (at that time a part of the Russian Empire).[2] His mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda; Douglas's maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill, served as Attorney General of Bermuda and was commanding officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.[3] Douglas has a younger brother, Joel Douglas (born 1947), and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas (born 1955) and Eric Douglas (1958–2004), from stepmother Anne Buydens.
Douglas attended The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City, The Choate Preparatory School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association. He studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City.[4]
Career
Early years
Douglas started his film career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in little known films like Hail, Hero! and Summertree. His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, where he starred alongside Karl Malden. Douglas later said that Malden became a "mentor" and someone he "admired and loved deeply".[5] After Douglas left the show, he had a long association with his mentor until Malden's death on July 1, 2009. In 2004, Douglas presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, for the Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1975, Douglas received from his father, Kirk Douglas, the rights to the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Michael went on to produce the film of the same name with Saul Zaentz.[6] Kirk Douglas considered playing the starring role himself, having starred in an earlier stage version, but chose against it, considering himself too old. The lead role went instead to a young Jack Nicholson, who would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Douglas won the Award for Best Picture for producing the film.
After leaving Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas played a hospital doctor in the medical thriller Coma (1978), and in 1979 he played the role of a troubled marathon runner in Running. In 1979, he both produced and starred in The China Syndrome, a dramatic film co-starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon about a nuclear power plant accident (the Three Mile Island accident took place 12 days after the film's release). The film was considered "one of the most intelligent Hollywood films of the 1970s."[4]
Success in Hollywood
Douglas' acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. It also helped launch Kathleen Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man, and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first box-office success. The film also starred Danny DeVito, a personal friend of Douglas' since they had shared an apartment in the 1960s. [7] It was followed a year later by a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced.
The year 1987 saw Douglas star in the horror thriller Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close. That same year he played tycoon Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor. He reprised his role as Gekko in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010, also directed by Stone.[8]
Douglas again teamed with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito for the 1989 film The War of the Roses. In 1989, he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw. The film was shot in Osaka, Japan.[9]
In 1992, Douglas had another successful starring role when he appeared alongside Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct. The movie was a box office hit, and sparked controversy over its depictions of bisexuality and lesbianism. In 1994, Douglas and Demi Moore starred in the hit movie Disclosure focusing on the topic of sexual harassment with Douglas playing a man harassed by his new female boss. Other popular films he starred during these decade were Falling Down, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Game (directed by David Fincher), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic – Dial M for Murder – titled A Perfect Murder. In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[10]
In 2000, Douglas starred in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed film Traffic, opposite Benicio del Toro and future wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. That same year, he also received critical acclaim for his role in Wonder Boys as a professor and novelist suffering from writer's block. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama as well as several other awards from critics.
Types of roles
According to film historian and critic David Thomson, Douglas was capable of playing characters who were "weak, culpable, morally indolent, compromised, and greedy for illicit sensation without losing that basic probity or potential for ethical character that we require of a hero."[11] Critic and author Rob Edelman points out similarities in many of Douglas's roles, writing that in some of his leading films, he personified the "contemporary, Caucasian middle-to-upper-class American male who finds himself the brunt of female anger because of real or imagined sexual slights."[4]
These themes of male victimization are seen in films such as Fatal Attraction (1987), with Glenn Close, War of the Roses (1989), with Kathleen Turner, Basic Instinct (1992), Sharon Stone, Falling Down (1993), and Disclosure (1994), with Demi Moore. For his characters in films such as these, "any kind of sexual contact with someone other than his mate and the mother of his children is destined to come at a costly price."[4] Edelman describes his characters as the "Everyman who must contend with, and be victimized by, these women and their raging, psychotic sexuality."[4]
Conversely, Douglas also played powerful characters with dominating personalities equally well: as Gordon Gekko, in the Wall Street franchise, he acted the role of a "greedy yuppie personification of the Me generation," convinced that "greed is good;" in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, he played an idealistic soldier of fortune; in The Star Chamber (1983), he was a court judge fed up with an inadequate legal system, leading him to become involved with a vigilante group; and in Black Rain (1989), he proved he could also play a Stallone-like action hero as a New York City cop.[4]
Actor and producer
Having become recognized as both a successful producer and actor, he describes himself as "an actor first and a producer second." He has explained why he enjoys both functions:
"I love the fact that on one side, with acting, you can be a child — acting is wonderful for its innocence and the fun. . . On the other side, producing is fun for all the adult kinds of things you do. You deal in business, you deal with the creative forces. As an adult who continues to get older, you like the adult risks. It's flying without a net, taking chances and learning. I was never good in economics or business — had no business background, you know, and I like it."[12]
He has also offered reasons why he has become successful in both acting and producing:
"I think I'm a chameleon. I think it's something that I possibly inherited early on as a child going back and forth between two families. I know that whether it's right or wrong, I have an ability to sort of fit into a lot of different situations and make people feel relatively comfortable in a wide range without giving up all my moral values. I think that same chameleonlike quality can transfer into films. I think if you can remember the reason you got involved with it in the first place and try to keep that impulsive, instinctive feeling even when you're being beaten down or exhausted or waylaid, you'll be successful."[12]
Recent years
In 2003, Douglas starred in It Runs in the Family, which featured three generations of his family (his parents, Kirk and Diana, as well as his own son, Cameron). The film, although a labor of love, was not successful, critically or at the box office. Douglas starred in the solid commercial action flick Don't Say a Word, then the poorly received action-thriller The Sentinel in 2006. During that time, he also guest-appeared on the episode, "Fagel Attraction", of the popular television sitcom Will and Grace, as a gay cop attracted to Will Truman (Eric McCormack); the performance earned Douglas an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Show.
Douglas was approached for Basic Instinct 2, but he declined to participate in the project. He said:
"Yes, they asked me to do it a while ago, I thought we had done it very effectively; [Paul] Verhoeven is a pretty good director. I haven't seen the sequel. I've only done one sequel in my life, The Jewel of the Nile, from Romancing The Stone. Besides, there were age issues, you know? Sharon still looks fabulous. The script was pretty good. Good for her, she's in her late-40s, and there are not a lot of parts around. The first one was probably the best picture of her career—it certainly made her career and she was great in it".[13]
Future engagements
Douglas is rumored to appear in Tragic Indifference, a courtroom thriller based on a landmark liability case against Ford Motor Company, according to Variety. Douglas will play the attorney who took Ford to court on behalf of a single mother from Texas who was paralyzed and nearly died after an accident. The trial exposed the automaker's indifference to flaws in its Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV). The movie will be based on Adam Penenberg's 2003 book of the same name. Douglas will play Attorney Tab Turner, who represented Donna Bailey after the Ford Explorer SUV she was riding in rolled over following a Firestone tire failure.[14]
On December 17, 2007 it was announced that Douglas would announce the introduction to NBC Nightly News, some two years after Howard Reig, the previous announcer, retired.[15]
Personal life
Family
After filming Summertree (1971), he began dating actress Brenda Vaccaro. The relationship lasted for about six years.[16]
In March 1977,[17] 33 year old Douglas married 19 year old Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat.[18] They had one son, Cameron, born in 1978. In 1995 Diandra filed for divorce[18] and was awarded $45 million as her settlement.[19]
Dating since March 1999, Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. They were both born on September 25, though 25 years apart. Zeta-Jones says that when they met in Deauville, France, Douglas used the line "I want to father your children."[20] They have two children, Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) and Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003).[21]
They planned on renewing their wedding vows in 2010 as part of their 10th wedding anniversary. The idea was hers, and came after Douglas was found to have advanced stages of cancer. One report notes that "Michael was in tears when she suggested it to him," and he sees it as a “wonderful expression of love.”[22]
Douglas, the son of a Jewish father and an Anglican mother, has declared no religious affiliation.[23]
Citizenship
Douglas is a U.S. citizen by birth in the United States and has Bermudian Status[24] through his mother's birth in Bermuda.
Skiing accident and rehab
In 1980, Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years. In September 1992, the same year Basic Instinct came out, he underwent treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction at Sierra Tucson Center.
Legal problems
In 1997, New York caddy James Parker sued Douglas for $25 million.[25] Parker accused Douglas of hitting him in the groin with an errant golf ball, causing Parker to lose a testicle and his job. The case was later settled out of court.[26]
Stalking
In 2004, Douglas and Zeta-Jones took legal action against stalker Dawnette Knight, who was accused of sending violent letters to the couple that contained graphic threats on Zeta-Jones' life. Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown.[27] Knight claimed she had been in love with Douglas and admitted to the offences, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004. She was sentenced to three years in prison.
Health problems
It was announced on August 16, 2010, that Douglas was suffering from throat cancer and will undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment.[28] On August 31, 2010 Douglas appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and confirmed that the cancer was at stage IV, the most advanced stage.[29] Douglas attributed the cancer to a combination of stress, his previous alcohol abuse, and years of heavy smoking.[30]
In November 2010, Douglas was put on a special weight gain diet by his doctors due to the excessive weight loss leaving him weak.[31] On January 11, 2011, he said in an interview that the tumor was gone. He admitted that the illness and aggressive treatment had caused him to lose 32 lbs in weight.[32] He will have to have monthly screenings because there is a very high chance that the cancer could return over the course of the next two to three years.[33] Although Douglas has described the cancer as throat cancer, many doctors believe he was actually diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer.[34][35]
Activism
Political activities
Douglas and Zeta-Jones hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2003. They acted as co-masters of ceremony in the concert celebrating the award given to Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. In 2006, Douglas was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
He is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and sits on the Board of Directors of the anti-war grantmaking foundation Ploughshares Fund. In 1998, he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan.[36] He is a notable Democrat and has donated money to Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, and Al Franken.[37] He has been a major supporter of gun control since John Lennon was murdered in 1980.[38]
In 2006 he was a featured speaker in a public service campaign sponsored by a UN conference to focus attention on trade of illicit arms, especially of small arms and light weapons. Douglas made several appearances and offered his opinions:
- "The conference is an opportunity for UN member states to build on the Program of Action and to encourage countries to strengthen their laws on the illicit trade, . . . an issue that affects us all . . .[and] while owning guns is a legal right in most countries, the illegal trade in guns continues to fuel conflict, crime and violence."[39]
A few years earlier, in 2003, Douglas hosted a "powerful film" on child soldiers and the impact of combat on children in countries such as Sierra Leone. During the documentary film, Douglas interviewed children, and estimated that they were among 300,000 other children worldwide who have been conscripted or kidnapped and forced to fight. Of one such child he interviewed, Douglas stated, "After being kidnapped by a rebel group, he was tortured, drugged, and forced to commit atrocities."[39] Douglas discussed his role as a Messenger Peace for the UN:
- "I'm in an enviable position . . . When I talk about movies I can talk about messages of peace, and infuse them into the entertainment pages."[39]
Humanitarian initiatives
In 2009 Douglas joined the project Soldiers of Peace, a movie against all wars and for global peace.[40][41]
Douglas lent his support for the campaign to release Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman, who after having been convicted of committing adultery, was given a sentence of death by stoning.[42]
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- ^ "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Filmsite.org. http://www.filmsite.org/onef.html. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
- ^ NY Daily News Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito remember old times at film awards
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- ^ Thomson, David. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Alfred A. Knopf (2002) pp. 247–249
- ^ a b Hirschberg, Lynn. Rolling Stone magazine, Jan. 16, 1986 pp. 28–32, 41
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- ^ "Michael Douglas Does the News". Zap2it.com. December 19, 2007. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-michaeldouglasnbcnewsvoiceover,0,5417160.story?coll=zap-tv-headlines.
- ^ Michael Douglas & Brenda Vaccaro: Is Out-of-Wedlock No Longer In?. People.com (1974-09-02). Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Ten Most Expensive Divorce Settlements in Hollywood", 6 May 2009
- ^ a b ''People Magazine. People.com (1995-07-10). Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ 10 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces, ''Forbers.com'', 12 April 20007. Forbes.com (2002-05-22). Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Cheesy chat up line that snagged Catherine Zeta-Jones". The Sydney Morning Herald. July 12, 2007. http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/how-cheesy-can-you-get/2007/07/12/1183833634622.html.
- ^ "Carys — a name rooted in love". BBC News. April 22, 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2966821.stm. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
- ^ "Michael Douglas to Renew Wedding Vows with Catherine Zeta-Jones", World Correspondents, Sept. 10, 2010
- ^ Galloway, Stephen (2010-11-29). "Michael Douglas: One Hell of a Year". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-douglas-hell-year-49839. Retrieved 2010-12-17.
- ^ Our records indicate that Michael K Douglas, 09/25/1944 has Bermudian status. Bermuda Department of Immigration
- ^ "The Smoking Gun Archive". The Smoking Gun. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/caddy-clubs-michael-douglas-0. Retrieved December 23, 2006.
- ^ "Michael Douglas closes testicle chapter". salon.com. December 23, 2000. http://www.salon.com/2000/12/22/npfri_30/.
- ^ Three-year term for Zeta stalker from BBC News Wales
- ^ "Michael Douglas to Undergo Throat Cancer Treatment". ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/michael-douglas-undergo-throat-cancer-treatment/story?id=11413860&page=2. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- ^ Brooks, Xan (September 1, 2010). "Michael Douglas reveals his cancer has spread". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/01/michael-douglas-cancer-spread. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ^ Michael Douglas: 'Cigarettes And Alcohol Caused My Cancer'. Starpulse.com (2010-09-01). Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Michael Douglas' recent weight loss worries doctors", November 14, 2010
- ^ "Michael Douglas says tumour is gone", BBC News, January 11, 2011
- ^ Carroll, Linda, "With throat tumor gone, Michael Douglas begins 3-year waiting game", MSNBC (2011-1-10)
- ^ Exact type of cancer Douglas has per www.medscape.com. Medscape.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ Doctors believe Douglas has oropharyngeal cancer, not throat cancer. Newsoxy.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ "Messengers of Peace". United Nations. http://www.un.org/News/ossg/messengers.htm#douglas. Retrieved December 23, 2006.
- ^ "Donor search — Michael Douglas". newsmeat.com. http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Michael_Douglas.php.
- ^ Michael Douglas – Douglas Pushes For Tighter Gun Control. Contactmusic.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-04.
- ^ a b c Firsing, Scott T. Disturbing Times: The State of the Planet and Its Possible Future, South Publishers (2007) pp. 92–93
- ^ "Michael Douglas — The Cast — Soldiers of Peace". Soldiersofpeacemovie.com. http://www.soldiersofpeacemovie.com/about/the-cast/25/michael-douglas. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ "Soldati di Pace (Soldiers of Peace)". Soldatidipace.blogspot.com. 2004-02-26. http://www.soldatidipace.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ "Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners". The Guardian (London). July 22, 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/22/iran-stoning-woman-campaigners.
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- Laura Kachergus (Actor, Comedy Drama)
- Back to the Streets of San Francisco (1992 Crime Film)
- For the Love of God: The Streets of San Francisco (TV Episode) (1973 Drama TV Episode)
- Death and the Favored Few: The Streets of San Francisco (TV Episode) (1974 Drama TV Episode)
- Shattered Silence (1971 Thriller Film)
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- Will Sampson (Actor, Drama/Film/TV & Radio)
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